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A fascinating world absolutely delightful characters and enemiestoloves romancethis book is one readers will devour before begging for more Tricia Levenseller New York Times bestselling author of Blade of Secrets

Gideon the Ninth meets the Game of Thrones White Walkers in this dark swiftly paced Publishers Weekly young adult fantasy about a disgraced ghostfighting warrior who must journey into a haunted wasteland to rescue a kidnapped prince

Ready your blade Defeat the undead

In the Dominions the dead linger violent and unpredictable unless a bonesmith severs the ghost from its earthly remains For bonesmith Wren becoming a valkyra ghostfighting warrioris a chance to solidify her place in the noble House of Bone and impress her frequently absent father But when sabotage causes Wren to fail her qualifying trial she is banished to the Border Wall the last line of defense against a wasteland called the Breach where the vicious dead roam unchecked

Determined to reclaim her familys respect Wren gets her chance when a House of Gold prince is kidnapped and taken beyond the Wall To prove she has what it takes to be a valkyr Wren vows to cross the Breach and rescue the prince But to do so shes forced into an uneasy alliance with one of the kidnappersa fierce ironsmith called Julian from the exiled House of Iron the very people who caused the Breach in the first placeand the House of Bones sworn enemy

As they travel Wren and Julian spend as much time fighting each other as they do the undead but when they discover theres more behind the kidnapping than either of them knew theyll need to work together to combat the real danger a dark alliance that is brewing between the living and the undead